warm
Meanings
- Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
- Friendly and with affection.
- Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
- Close to a goal or correct answer.
- Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
- Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.
- Ardent, zealous.
- Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.
- Requiring arduous effort.
- To make or keep warm.
- To become warm, to heat up.
- (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
- To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
- To become ardent or animated.
- To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
- To give emotional warmth to a person.
- To beat or spank.
- To scold or abuse verbally.
- To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
- To send electronic mail from (a domain) to improve its reputation for mail sending.
- The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *warmaz Proto-West Germanic *warm Old English wearm Middle English warm English warm From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, either from Proto-Indo-European *wór-mo-s, from *wer- (“to burn”), or Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰor-mo-s, from the root *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with West Frisian waarm, Saterland Frisian woorm, Dutch warm, German warm, Swedish varm, Icelandic varmur, Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós) (in which case perhaps a distant doublet of thermos), Latin formus, Sanskrit घर्म (gharmá), or alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to burn”), related to Hittite 𒉿𒊏𒀀𒉌 (warāni, “to burn”), Armenian վառել (vaṙel, “to burn, heat, warm”), Old Church Slavonic варити (variti, “to cook, boil”).